No.1 Harbourside Reviews Summary

Location

Pros:

• "Situated in the harbour, it is one of our favourite places to have a coffee or meal."
• "Really great location on the harbourside close to the ferry boat pick up."
• "Clean place and you can enjoy the drinks by the riverside....literally."
• "A great bar with a fantastic location if you're looking for a drink on a sunny summers day."
• "Really great location on the harbourside close to the ferry boat pick up."
• "Lovely harbourside location, too, where you can watch the world go by."
• "Great location along the water."

Cons:

• "The baby changing facilities are difficult to use."
• "The toilets were in a very disgusting state (both male and female)."
• "The ladies loo's bins were full to overflowing. No loo roll in some of them."
• "Building could do with some work. High ceilings and little soft furnishings make it too loud to hold a conversation."
• "The hand dryer has been cold for years. The toilet locks are often broken."
• "One of the toilets is out of use so the only solution was to relabel the men's toilet (which is 90% trough urinal) unisex which was totally inappropriate for everyone concerned."
• "This bar is quite run down and smelled like a public toilet."

Food & Drinks

Pros:

• "The mushroom and smoked cheese arancini was divine."
• "Had the best fish and chips here."
• "The burger was outrageously good!"
• "Another night of great dancing with Paper Moon. As always a brilliant atmosphere for dancing and having fun. Great food as well."
• "Popped in for lunch and had one of the day's specials, seafood chowder. Absolutely delicious."
• "The fish and chips was lovely."
• "The vegan mezze was delicious."

Cons:

• "The food is nothing to write home about and takes a while to arrive."
• "The food was lacking with stale tasting muffins and undercooked eggs."
• "Food can be ok, but menu changes over the last few years towards vegetarian and vegan reduce the choices for omnivores."
• "This time chips were frozen out of a bag even though charged £4 for hand cut chips."
• "Although the burger wasn't that good. A bit dry."
• "Tasteless yet expensive food. Pity the chef didn't taste their own food because noone would send out anything that tasted so bland or burnt aka £12 cauliflower burger :-("
• "The food was a little over cooked and the service slow."

Service

Pros:

• "Really friendly punters and excellent security. Friendly and helpful... told us no need to rush our drinks at the end and supplied plastic glasses so we could have a take out."
• "Staff have always been super friendly too."
• "Staff are really polite, helpful and attentive."
• "First of all the efforts the staff were going to to keep everyone safe whilst still delivering great service definitely deserves a mention."
• "Lovely friendly staff, good atmosphere, perfect location for a proper cup of tea (with the leaves) and to watch the world go by."
• "Staff very friendly and atmosphere relaxed."
• "Front of house staff were friendly and accommodating and I felt right at home the entire time."

Cons:

• "Didn't seem like anyone had a clue what was going on."
• "It's let down by the staff, who, whilst very friendly, go about the act of serving people as if it's all a big surprise to them."
• "Very noisy bar and when going to an empty bar for a second set of drinks was ignored by three members of staff."
• "Great food! Although the service was a bit lazy and slow. Our waitress wasn't very friendly."
• "Really poor service - bar man failed to acknowledge us at the bar for 10 minutes while the other end of the bar were served continually."
• "The waiting staff and the Duty Manager Tom spent most of the evening avoiding our table."
• "Staff were well meaning, but just couldn't get anything right."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Some nights they also have live music which transform the place into a big party."
• "The vegetarian options are great, the view is great and the music isn't too loud."
• "The place has quite a nice, rustic atmosphere to it, with a calming view of the river."
• "Beautiful waterside serving main meals, beer and coffees."
• "Super chilled atmosphere in the harbour side!"
• "Lovely atmosphere on the Thursday Jazz night."
• "Great atmosphere in this bar/restaurant."

Cons:

• "Sadly, won't be going again. Was put off by the sloppiness of it, it needs a good clean before opening to the public!"
• "Everything is a touch expensive for what you get and service is pretty slow."
• "Very noisy bar."
• "It gets mobbed with hen parties and tourists."
• "Slightly let down by a couple rude homeless who also frequent the area as we didn't have any change for them."
• "We were, however, evicted from our seats quite unceremoniously."
• "Definitely wouldn't recommend with small children."